The U Word

Georgia O'Keefe's "Blue Flower" (1918)

Did you read about the Florida legislator who was admonished for using the word "uterus" on the floor of the Florida House?  There's a great opinion piece HERE.

Would he have been called down for mentioning a kidney? A liver? Bile duct? And what about those controversial Isles of Langerhans?

It's because of growing up amidst a mindset like this that I still call the chicken breast the "white meat," the leg  the "drumstick," and the thigh, the "second joint," causing my friends from more enlightened parts of the world to look at me strangely.

Were you brought up to use 'polite' circumlocutions of this sort?

Stone Bike

Driving through Newport, Tennessee yesterday morning on my way to Birmingham and the Murder in the Magic City Convention, I was at a stop light when something caught my eye.

Fortunately my camera was on the seat beside me; fortunately it was a long, long stop light. I was able to get three shots of what is my new favorite memorial piece.

My previous favorite, from back in the seventies, was a white styrofoam rectangle with a toy princess phone -- off the hook. Plastic roses matching the color of the phone (red, pink, or yellow) rimmed the rectangle and next to the phone were the words, "Jesus called . . ."

But this! The details . . . the size . . . the weight . . . There's glory for you!!!